is there a way to use input(“Press any key to continue”) on version 2.6

I want the program to pause and wait until you press any key to continue, but raw_input() is going away, and input() is replacing it. So I have
var = input("Press enter to continue") and it waits until I press enter, but then it fails with SyntaxError: unexpected EOF while Parsing. This works OK on a system with Python 3, but this is linux Python 2.6 and I hate to have to code in raw_input() since it is going away. Any suggestions?